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Improvement in Center Seais for Gas-Works.

No. 115,632. Patented June 6,1871

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Improvement in Center Seals for Gas Wor'ks.

Patented June 6.1871

No.115,6s2;

PETER MUNZINGER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CENTER-SEALS FQRGAS-WORK$.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,632, dated June 6, 1871.

Description of the Accompanying jDm-w'ing.

Figure 1 is a side or surface view. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through I K, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a top view. Fig. 4 is a vertical section through LM, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a section through A B, Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a section through 0 D, Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a section through E F, Fig.

, 1. Fig. 8 is a section through G H, Fig. 1.

Fig. 9 is an isometrical perspective with the casing removed. Fig. 10 is a plan view of the distributing-chamber, showing the pipes leading to and from the purifiers. Fig. 11 is a view of the distributing-chamber, the casing being removed. Fig. 12 is a perspective view of the distributin g-ch amber, the casin g being also removed.

General Description.

N, Figs. 1, 2, 1, and'S, is a connecting-pipe from the condenser or washer to the inlet-pipe 0, around and concentric with which, or equivalently so, are the outlet and drip pipes P Q. R, Figs. 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, l0, l1, and 12, is a cylindrical gas-distributer. It is divided transversely by a horizontal diaphragm, S, into the upper and lower chambers T T, communicating with the several purifiers arranged around the center-seal, as shown by the pipes U U U U. The distributor is again divided by the vertical radial partitions V, which extend through the chambers T T into the slips 7) b b If, Fig. 10, commensurate with the number of purifiers, four being used in this instance. W, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, is a loose or circular valve, which is divided by the radial partitions a, corresponding in number with the radial partitions V of the distributor 1t, and also by the partitions d, Figs. 5 and 9, commensurate in number with the vertical pipes X, Figs. 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 12. The vertical pipes X are the means whereby the gas is returned from the purifiers into the valve W without getting into the upper chamber T. Openings are formed in the transverse diaphragm S, through which the pipes pass and form ground joints with the lower edges of the radial partitions of the valve. The number of pipes must cor respond with the number of purifiers. The gas from the condenser or washer is forced through the connecting-pipe N into the inletpipe 0, Figs. 2 and 4, from which it passes through the inlet or opening f, Figs. 2 and 5, and the arrow line, Fig. 9, in the valve W, into the slip b, Fig. 10, of the upper chamber T, and is forced through the pipe U into the first purifier, and returns through the lowerpipe U into the lower slip b of the lower-chamber T, Fig. 2. It then passes through the pipe or up-take X into the valve W, Fig. 9, and is deflected by the partition cl of the valve into the second slip b and out of the pipe U Fig. 10, into the second purifier; returning by the lower pipe into the lower chamber of the distributor it passes up the up-take X to the valve again. The gas pursues this course until it has gone through all the purifiers and flows into the outlet-pipe P at the opening Y, Figs. 2 and 4, from which it is taken by the pipe Z. The construction of the valve is such that one purifier is always shut off for cleaning or repairing. The radial partitions of the slips and pipes or up-takes X form ground'joints with the partitions c and d of the valve to prevent the gas from leaking from one slip to another. Anyrequired purifier can be shut off by simply turning the valve until the radial partitions of that slip form continuous divisions with those of the valve. To prevent the gas from getting from one slip to another by passing down the drip-pipes and under the divisions, a waterseal, Z, is formed, as shown at Figs. 2 and 4. The tar and ammoniacal liquor dropped by the gas in its passage to and from the several purifiers flow from the slips through openings into the drip-pipe Q and mix with the water forming the seal.

I do not claim as new the concentric inlet, outlet, and drip pipes O P Q, the rotary valve W, and the covered ground radial joints, they being protected by Letters Patent of the United States No. 109,540, issued to me on the 22d day of November, 1870.

I claim as my invention-- 1. The distributing chambcr 38., divided in two parts by the horizontal diaphragm S, for In testimony whereof I hereunto sign mythe purpose shown and described. name to this specification in presence of two 2. The vertical pipes or up-takes X, which subscribing witnesses. connect the lower distributing-chamber T with PETER MUNZINGER. the valve W.

3. Combination and arrangerhentoftheinlet, Witnesses: outlet, and drip pipes O P Q, the distributing- FRANCIS D. PASTORIUS, chamber R, the pipes X, and the valve W, as JOHN YILLE.

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